--- From: "Xeni Jardin" <xeniat_private> To: "Declan McCullagh" <declanat_private> Subject: TijuanaPrisonCam.com? Mexican Govt. to install webcams in jail cells. Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 00:30:20 -0700 This bizarre announcement has received some limited play in Spanish-language media here in San Diego... no pithy one-liner I might insert here could top the surreal hilarity of the facts themselves. I don't know the actual address of the planned webcam site, but the url for the Baja attorney general's site is <http://www.pgjebc.gob.mx/main.htm>. --XJ ----------------------------------- <http://www.uniontrib.com/news/mexico/20020607-9999_6m7cameras.html> Cameras to monitor holding cells Baja officials plan link to Internet By Anna Cearley UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER June 7, 2002 TIJUANA The Baja California Attorney General's Office soon will install Internet-wired video cameras to monitor holding cells and the other areas detainees pass through. Human-rights organizations, lawyers' groups and eventually the general public will be able to access the video through a special Web site that is being designed. "The objective is to be transparent in what we are doing and to eradicate . . . complaints that people are placed in holding cells who shouldn't be there and that they are treated poorly or aren't given food," said Antonio Martínez Luna, the state attorney general. A pilot program has been started at the attorney general's Mexicali office, said Raúl Gutiérrez, spokesman for the Tijuana office. The cameras are expected to be permanently installed in both offices in the next three months. Officials in Tijuana are still deciding how many cameras to use and where to install them. At this point, the cameras won't be recording interviews conducted by state investigators, and they won't be placed in areas where they might discourage residents from reporting crimes. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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